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News of The Future This Week: June 8, 2018

“The environment is everything that isn’t me.”–Albert Einstein

Back in the ancient days of 2014, Bill Gates predicted there will be no poor countries by 2035. Is this likely? Who knows? But it’s hard not to see that renewable energy and materials will become increasingly critical if the world is to maintain current population and economic growth rates.

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Environment–Technologies to remove and recycle carbon dioxide from the atmosphere have long been dismissed as too expensive. But a paper published this week in the journal Joule suggests that existing technology might bring the price down to as low as $94 a ton, vs. previous estimates of $1000.